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YOUNG SONOGRAPHERS TEACHING ULTRASOUND TO MEDICAL STUDENTS Text: Robin Walter | University of Bern Young Sonographers is a fast-growing project, carried by medical students and junior doctors with the simple goal to push boundaries of ultra sound teaching throughout Switzerland. Soon being present at all Swiss medical univer sities, we thought about our next steps and de cided to update our online learning platform which teaches theoretical knowledge to our ba sic course participants.
During the past years, we also found that some of our videos did not seem to provide clear ex planations and were therefore often left aside by students. We now reformulated the words, clari fied the pictures and hope to improve the lear ning experience for all our participants.
This new eLearning will be available around the end of 2021 online and will be used for all our courses. Our local committees always directly What we now did, with invaluable monetary su contact all medical students, which are eligible pport from swimsa Fonds, is an update of the di to take part in our teachings. dactic ideas behind all our videos. For more images and to know, what is going Therefore we collaborated with experienced on, follow us on Instagram or contact your local doctors to create clear guidelines for the exami committee. nation of each organ and film them as precisely as possible. All the best, Young Sonographers Switzerland
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